By: Billy Ehrenberg

Billy Ehrenberg is a Data Journalist and Content Developer at City A.M. He can be contacted at billy.ehrenberg@cityam.com. He is particularly passionate about data visualisation and telling stories with numbers.

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World GDP map: How will the UK’s economy compare to France and Germany in 2015?

October 9, 2014

It wasn't great news from the IMF this week. Global growth looks weak, the Eurozone faces the prospect of a triple-dip recession, and hovering over the single-currency zone is the spectre of deflation. In its half-yearly report, (which also showed China to have a bigger economy than the US for the first time) the IMF [...]
London house prices could drop further over the next three months

October 9, 2014

House price momentum has gone back 16 months. According to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) report, this is the third straight month that demand has slipped. Simon Rubinsohn, chief economist at Rics, said expectations were that prices in London could drop over the next three months, as a greater balance between supply and [...]
Has China overtaken the US as the world’s largest economy?

October 8, 2014

It's been coming for a while, but is China now the world's biggest economy? Maybe. The IMF seems to think so: based on its calculations (which are admittedly estimates after 2013) China's economy is effectively larger than that of the US, because a dollar in China goes substantially further. If you need to see it [...]
FirstGroup fails in bid to renew ScotRail franchise

October 8, 2014

First Group will not continue to run the ScotRail route, the transport operator has announced. In a statement released this morning the company, which does business both in the UK and North America, said it was disappointed not to have retained the contract and pointed to "our record of improvement across every measurable score". The [...]
UK house prices grow 9.6 per cent in a year, but growth is slowing. Here’s why

October 8, 2014

More data showing the housing market is slowing has emerged today. Halifax, which bases its calculations on its own mortgage lending, calculates prices have risen 9.6 per cent over the year to September (down from 9.7 per cent for the year to August and 10.2 per cent for the 12 months to July) and 2.7 [...]
Crisis over for UK – but Eurozone has strong chance of recession, says IMF

October 7, 2014

Forget wages rising more slowly than inflation or lagging GDP per capita: the crisis is behind the UK, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Having disagreed with the medicine, the IMF seems now to recognise the current climate as a cure, despite concerns about living standards and spare capacity in the labour market. Things [...]
UK industrial production flat, as shares fall across Europe on German data

October 7, 2014

After industrial production tumbled in Germany, the data was flat for the UK. Month-on-month figures showed a rise of 0.1 per cent, down from 0.5 per cent in July. Earlier this morning Germany had reported the biggest month-on-month drop in output since January 2009. Taken as a whole, it hasn't been a bad year for [...]
German industrial production suffers biggest drop since January 2009

October 7, 2014

The latest industrial production figures came out for Germany this morning, and they aren't pretty. Not since January 2009 has the Eurozone powerhouse suffered like this: a four per cent drop month on month and a 2.8 per cent drop year on year. Both measures were rising last month. Expectations for the month-on-month data were [...]
Tesco share price rises amid talk of more boardroom changes and mounting pressure on chairman Sir Richard Broadbent

October 7, 2014

Tesco's share price recovered slightly yesterday, ticking up 2.4 per cent by close, but the talk was of more changes at the top. According to the Financial Times, Tesco shareholders have been meeting with the company's senior non-executive director Patrick Cescau to ascertain if further boardroom reshaping is required. Tesco appointed two new board members yesterday, Richard Cousins and [...]
Ford Fiesta is the UK’s most popular car as sales hit their highest since 2004

October 6, 2014

UK car sales hit a ten-year high in September, with 425,861 new vehicles registered. The figures, released by The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), show a 5.6 per cent jump on last month, with the most popular car a Ford Fiesta (see chart two). This month's rise means that the number of cars [...]

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